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CAGW Releases February 2017 WasteWatcher

For Immediate Release

Contact: Curtis Kalin 202-467-5318

February 24, 2017

(Washington, D.C.) – Today Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its February 2017 WasteWatcher, a monthly dispatch to members of the news media, highlighting some of the most prominent fiscal issues affecting American taxpayers. The stories from its February edition of WasteWatcher are listed in part as follows:

The process of repealing and replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is underway. On January 20, the day President Trump was sworn into office, he signed his first Executive Order, which directed federal agencies to “minimize the economic burden of Obamacare pending its repeal.” Read the full storyhere.

On November 16, 2016, eight days after the momentous election of Donald Trump as president (with his promise to “drain the swamp”), House Republicans inexplicably contemplated the restoration of earmarks. Read the full story here.

The promise to build a wall and secure the southern border of the United States was perhaps President Donald Trump’s most well-known campaign pledge. On January 25, 2017, he signed two executive orders related to immigration, setting his plan in motion. Read the full story here.

During the Obama administration, broadband projects that were supposed to reach unserved regions of the country both failed to provide the much-touted services and overlapped services in areas where private sector broadband was already available. Read the full story here.

CAGW is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.